Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d013363ac8c17976…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-13 16:34:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8299cfc0619d9580f05f0f4013bf38e3 SHA-1: ff55a57666ff1882ef8d796fe10e824ba7cf8e7b SHA-256: d013363ac8c1797661cf44ce88da04a3425033f0d697416a4ce4a3b88dae554c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to domains identified as compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve further malware. The presence of a link farm on compromised WordPress upload storage suggests an attempt to disguise malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daae08996c59d95ee5c4ef08af54e3a8/9351315213.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/riximojosixevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719f466fcfd---6501138734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/48338165116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/21869884515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/sobedadujuluborozotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uni8jdgnbvo9rms9due1ddsf76/lafofajenefupujuxubeneru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsharqcc.com/userfiles/files/vanowepemixupivonawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadamasristorante.it/file/gebixelimosofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0248e5fe121f1f9e23b5ecc060f6687d/wenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/wafunopasebanonimowavanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff82fde659---xisupitovulewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sucou8gvkrs7crkaqbc4ufjtq4/82254559732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63e25777ed---noduxolojadekelofewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1c7f75517---javugebapufavuwasufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/difis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/gozigujamorivurikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/xositofumusirugeloso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7807316b16---vibixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6e3624894---94193125694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/kisozewawemanuruxuded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/fovatewuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/99054593492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8q3gqdmvnet8hr5ogj9216fbh2/nifutuwiwiwigata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=evinrude+outboard+manuals+freePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD6 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 554628466e02031177ea30cd0fc721846ce48ebe49a1312b7e909d65d001f749
font_01_sfnt_off000108b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B0 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 83dbe802b7422ee31aaf95c74087000e4d05573bac4036e274b4fe5adb43f316
font_02_sfnt_off000134f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1